Outcome measures for effective teamwork in inpatient care
Subtitle: final report
By: Melony E. Sorbero ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sorbero, Melony E.; Rand Corporation.
Publisher: RAND Corp.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780833043153
Subjects: Health care teams; Outcome assessment (Medical care); Medicine -- Quality control; Medicine -- Safety measures; Medical errors -- Prevention; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Patient Care Team -- organization & administration; Hospitals, Military -- organization & administration; Inpatients; Medical Errors -- prevention & control; Quality of Health Care
Description: Addresses one step in the process of moving from teamwork training to teamwork practices that improve outcomes of care: identifying outcomes that are most likely to be affected as teamwork practices improve in an implementing organization. Discusses a literature search, methods for selecting and testing candidate measures, measures highly rated by clinical experts, and results of measure testing on administrative data of the DoD health system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Review of the literature on teamwork and patient safety; title: Selection of clinical areas; title: Measure identification and rating on relationship to teamwork; title: Empirical testing of selected measures; title: Discussion.